You can find my 2 new poems here, on the Big Bridge site. One of them is about a writer that a lot of people seem to love to hate, judging by the column inches (screen inches?).
Yes, this is still scary! I’m back in the classroom, fixed by his beady eye…

The end of July / beginning of August was a very happy chunk of time for me. The news about the Ingrid Jonker prize reached me on 5 August by the kind (behind the scenes) offices of Rustum — which by now is old news. The previous week, though, I’d heard about a book I’d been closely involved with winning a completely different kind of prize.
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in the print media… and very nice of Darryl Accone it was too (15-21 August 2008). (more…)

At the Book Lounge, Cape Town, at 18h00 for 18h30 on Thursday 21 August.

Finuala will be reading from her new collection, Notes from the Dementia Ward, and I’ll read from Fourth Child, with a few new poems thrown in. I’m not sure if Joan will read from Requiem but I’m looking forward to it, and hope to see some of you there.